Sending Weather Warnings

Purpose: Weather Display can run a program, play a sound, send an email or notify a pager when certain local threshold conditions that you have selected are met. Make sure the main internet switch is ON in the connections setup in the FTP/internet setup. General

Click on "Setup" in the menu bar, then Control panel. Click on "Setup weather warning email".

The first thing is to set the threshold settings. They are metric based, and kts for windspeed, but the equivalent US units conversion is displayed, and to get kmh from kts, there is 1.85 kmh for every 1 knot of wind.

You can easily get to this page by clicking on the alarm LED on the main weather display page. If this is flashing, then a warning has occurred, and then click on reset alarm LEDs to stop the flashing. Email Warnings

Next, if you want to email someone this weather warning, then add their email to the list (enter their email, then click on the > button).

Enter your weather station name, your name, your email address.

Then set up your email settings, that are used with your Internet Service provider - I.e the mail server you have setup in Outlook express or Netscape mail. Change the port number if needed, but this is normally set to 25.

Make sure you turn the switch to show green, in the top right hand corner to enable the weather warning emails.

Then click on the test button to send a test report.

You can also add extra text to the email (see where I have Testing J) in the example screen shot above. Warning to a Pager

You can email a pager, if you have this service provided by someone, with the information being contained in the subject of the email

There are a few settings here (bottom left hand corner) to note:

If going to a numeric pager, then you need to tick email to a numeric pager, so no special characters (like % and oC) are included. You also need to enter the email address to email to this numeric pager. If you don’t want anything to appear in the body of the email, then tick use email subject line only for message. This is needed for a SMS email service. If your station name is too long to fit in the SMS limited space, then enter a new shorter station name.

If you have a list of emails for the weather report email (see later in this help, and see under FTP setup, weather report/reboot), and you want to email the same people a weather warning email, then click on import list from weather report list. Execute a program on a warning condition

You can have any other .exe or .bat file on your pc run at the same time just include the full path name here. Play a sound file on a warning condition

If you want a sound to be played when a weather warning event has occurred, then just name a .wav file (either record one, or use a existing sound file (i.e a .wav file ) on your PC, but you need to rename the sounds, and have them located where weather display is installed (c:\wdisplay is the default location).

The sound file names you need to have are:

   * rainin6hourswarning.wav: -- For the rain in 6 hours threshold being exceeded.
   * rainin1hourwarning.wav: -- For the rain in 1 hour threshold being exceeded.
   * pressurechangewarning.wav: -- For the pressure change in 1 hour being exceeded.
   * maxavwindspeedwarning.wav: -- For the maximum average windspeed threshold being exceeded.
   * lowavwindspeedwarning.wav: -- If the threshold is not zero, then this warning will be activated when the average windspeed goes below the setting you have chosen.
   * rainrecorded.wav: -- each time rain is recorded, this sound will be played (to get the washing off the line!).

Note that any threshold will only be set off at a maximum rate of once per hour and the low temperature threshold gets reset (so it can be set off again) when the temperature next goes above that setting. A complete list of all the sound files that WD can deal with:

   * firstrain.wav
   * pressurechangewarning.wav
   * tempchangewarning.wav
   * rainin1hourwarning.wav
   * rainin6hourswarning.wav
   * maxtemperaturewarning.wav
   * mintemperaturewarning.wav
   * lowavwindspeedwarning.wav
   * maxindoortempwarning.wav
   * minindoortempwarning.wav
   * frostwarning.wav
   * wm918battery.wav
   * wmr918battery.wav
   * minwetbulb.wav
   * mildewwarning.wav
   * maxindoorhumwarning.wav
   * mintempextrawarning.wav
   * maxtempextrawarning.wav
   * mintempextrawarning.wav
   * mintempextrawarning.wav
   * minwindchillwarning.wav
   * maxbarowarning.wav
   * minbarowarning.wav
   * maxheatwarning.wav
   * speeddirwarning.wav
   * dirtime.wav
   * maxavwindspeedwarning.wav

Help! If you have, or could create, a set of files for these warnings, please send to Brian so that they could be downloaded from this page.